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No. 390,379. Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT rricn.

CHARLES I. D. LOOFF, OF GRAVESEND, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,379, dated October 2, 1888.

Application filed February 14, 1888. Serial No. 263,097.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES I. D. LOOFF, o'fGravescnd, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Images, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in the construction of images, especially the construction of images or figures of animals for use in connection with earrousels or merrygo-rounds, and has for its object to combine with strength a pleasing and perfect contour.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an image having portions broken away. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line at a of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a section on line yy, and Fig. 4- a section on line 2 z, of Fig. 1.

In carrying out the invention, A represents the central portion of the trunk, neck, and head of an animal, the top, bottom, front, and rear edges of which are carved or otherwise manipulated to represent the contour of the back, under. front, and rear lines of the body, including those of the head of the animal to be imitated. The two sides B of the trunk, likewise of the head and neck, are made fiat, and are not intended to represent the contour of the sides of those portions of the animal. The legs 0 of the animal are made of a single piece of wood. The front and rear edges, 0 G are made to conform to the natural contour, the sidesC being fiat, as in the body.

To complete the animal, the representation of the sides of the body, including the neck and head, are molded or cast from a plastic (No model.)

material, as illustrated at D, the inner face of the cast being made fiat. The flat surface of the cast sides and that of the wooden body sides are brought in contact, and the two cemented or otherwise attached to complete the upper portion of the animal and produce a perfect contour thereof. Casts Dare now made of the plastic material representing the sides and legs, and the said casts D and the wooden representation of the legs are united in similar manner, as above set forth, completing the natural contour of the legs and also the perfect imitation of the entire animal.

By this mode of construction great strength is obtained and the development of the muscles is brought out more naturally and more economically than were the entire figure carved from wood, as heretofore.

The compound employed for the casts or molds is preferably composed of chalk, sawdust, ground linseed, and glue.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A figure or image consisting of three lon gitudinal sections, the central section constructed of a rigid material and the other sections of plastic material, substantially as described.

2. In a figure or image consisting of two outer sections and an inner section, the combination, with an inner wooden section having fiat sides and the edges finished in imitation of the profile of the figure, of plastic side sections having a fiat inner face and an outer face eon forming to the side contour of the figure, the flat faces of the side sections being secured to the equivalent faces of the central section, as and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES I. D. LOOFF. \Vitnesses:

J. F. AOKER, Jr., C. SEDGWIGK. 

